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weapons. you can listen to iran's supreme leader, ali khamenei mr. khamenei: i stress that the islamic republic has never been after nuclear weapons. pm netanyahu: you can listen to hassan rouhani. the iranian president. pres. rouhani: nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in iran's security or defense doctrine and contradict our religious and ethical convictions. pm netanyahu: this is repeated by iran's foreign minister javad zarif. mr. zarif: we didn't have a program. it was irrational as well as immoral. pm netanyahu: i'm here to tell you one thing. iran lied. big time. after signing the deal, iran

intensified efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. in 2017, iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in southern tehran. this is the shorabad district. this is where they kept the archives. right here. few iranians knew where it was. very few. and also a few israelis. from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. it looks like a dilapidated warehouse. but from the inside, it contained iran's secret archives locked in massive files. actually, they are bigger than this. a few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults.

here is what we got -- 55,000 pages. another 55,000 files on 183 cd's. everything you are about to see is an exact copy of the iranian material. you may want to see the -- you may not -- you may want to know where are the originals but i can say now they are in a very safe place. here is what we found -- incriminating documents incriminating charts, , incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos, and more. we have shared this with the united states. the united states can vouch for

its authenticity. we will also share it with other countries, and we will share it with the international atomic energy agency. let me tell you the history of it. we have known for years that iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called project amad. we can prove that project amad was a comprehensive program to design, build, and test nuclear weapons. here is what project amad's goal was. we can also prove that they are storing the material to develop nuclear weapons. here is what project amad's goal was. creating nuclear weapons. this is an original iranian presentation from these files. here is the mission statement. design, produce, and test five warheads for integration on a

missile. you don't have to read farsi to see 10 kilotons here, of tnt. this is the specific goal. that is like five hiroshima bombs put on ballistic missiles. this is an original iranian spreadsheet from the archives of project amad. look at what it has here. enrichment projects. yellow cake production. centrifuge enrichment projects. warhead project. simulation project. tests. indeed, when we analyzed what is in these archives, we found that project amad had all five elements, the key elements of a nuclear weapons program. i want to take them one by one.

the first element is designing nuclear weapons. this is an original iranian illustration of a weapon. again, you do not have to read farsi to understand this. this is enriched uranium at the core. that is the only place you find in the core enriched uranium. here is an iranian simulation, original iranian simulation, putting these components together. that is the first component. second component, developing nuclear cores. here is a photo showing the casting process. a cast metal core from the archives. here is the secret underground facility the iranians were building to produce nuclear cores. we have hundreds of documents for each of these components. third component -- building

nuclear implosion systems. this is an original iranian photo of a measuring devices for implosion, and here is a simulation of a nuclear implosion. the fourth element. preparing nuclear tests. here is a map of five potential locations for a nuclear test in eastern iran. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. we have many, many more such documents. and fifth, integrated nuclear weapons, here is a design the shahab 3 missile from the archives. here is the warhead. here is the bomb. i do not have to tell you, i don't think, that iran is continuing to expand.

the range of vicks ballistic missiles. they started with 1000 kilometers. they are at 2000 now roughly. they can reach riyadh, tel aviv, moscow, but they are working on greater ranges. they are planning longer-range missiles to carry nuclear weapons. these conclusively prove iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had a nuclear weapons program. the files prove that. here is what happened next. iran was faced with pressure in 2003 -- you remember that, that was following the gulf war. it was forced to shelve project amad. but it did not shelve its missions. -- its nuclear ambitions. iran devised a plan to do two things to preserve the nuclear know-how.

that plan came from top leadership. and to further develop its nuclear related weapons capabilities. that plan came from top leadership. here is another document from the archives. this is following the new directive of iran's minister of defense, mr. shamkhani, the work would be split into two parts, covert and overt. a key part of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work. this is how dr. mohsen fakhrizadeh did it, the director of project amad. remember that name. he announced the project. here is his directive. a is to the general announce the closure project amad but then he adds special

activities -- you know what that is -- special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know-how developments. in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. it continued this work in a series of organizations over the years, and today in 2010 -- or 2018, this work is carried out by an organization inside iran defense ministry. you will not be surprised that spnd is like by the same man who -- is led by the same man who led project amad, dr. mohsen fakhrizadeh, so this atomic many of his key personnel worked on this project. so this atomic archive clearly shows iran planned at the highest levels to continue work related to nuclear weapons under different guises and using the same personnel.

i want to give an example of iran's nuclear weapons-related activities that continued after project amad. you all remember the fordow uranium enrichment facility. can you show that? this was a secret, underground enrichment facility that the iranians built under a mountain. you don't put thousands of centrifuges under a mountain to produce medical isotopes. you put them here for one reason. enrichment of nuclear weapons. but the files show that fordow was designed for nuclear weapons as part of project amad. from the beginning. here is an original iranian ofordow and what

happened was that iran continue to build years after the project ended. here is what it looks like. that is the entrance. it goes under a mountain. you also will not be surprised that iran insisted on keeping fordow, and amazingly, the nuclear deal enabled it to do that. it enabled it to do it, but this came with a hitch. iran was required by the iaea to come clean with the nuclear deal, to come clean to the international atomic energy agency about its program. this is an explicit condition for implementing the nuclear deal. iran has to come clean. so in december of 2015, the iaea published the final assessment of what it called the military aspects of iran's nuclear program. this is the report.

this was iran's chance to fully come clean to the iaea. they could have said it does not exist, we destroy the material. here is what iran told the iaea. it said, "iran denied the existence of they program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive devise. they specifically denied" -- get this -- "they specifically denied the existence of the plan." the material proves otherwise. iran authorized, initiated, and funded project amad. a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device. here is another document from the archives. this is a master plan of project amad. iran said to the iaea this is

-- no work has been conducted with a multipoint initiation. you have to forgive me. the scientific terminology is something that is necessary to understand the nuclear weapons for here is what they said. no work has been conducted with mpi technology in hemispherical geometry. again, the archives show this is a complete fabrication. iran said to the agency that it does not conduct metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear test. this is a lie. iran conducted extensive metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device. here is another photo. plenty more in the archives. what i have shown you is a

fraction of the material we have. but even from this sample, you can draw four main conclusions. first, iran lied about never having a nuclear weapons program. 100,000 secret files prove that they lied. second, even after the deal, iran continue to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons know-how for future use. why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalogue its secret nuclear files if not to use them at a later date? third, iran lied again in 2015 when it did not come clean to the iaea as required by the nuclear deal. finally, the iran deal, the nuclear deal, is based on lies.

it is based on iranian lies and iranian deception. 100,000 files right here prove that they lied. here is the bottom line. iran continues to lie. just last week, javad zarif said this -- mr. zarif: we never wanted to produce a bomb. pm netanyahu: again. mr. zarif: we never wanted to produce a bomb. pm netanyahu: yes you did. yes, you do. the archive proves it. the nuclear deal gives iran a clear path to an atomic arsenal. it gives the components necessary to produce this arsenal. unlimited enrichment. first,in a few years. they plan to have several hundred thousand centrifuges they can reach mountains.

-- mountains of uranium for that core and many cores. second, it completely fails to address iran's development of ballistic missiles. third, and this is new, it completely fails to address iran's nuclear bomb program and it's advanced weaponization. we just did. so, this is a terrible deal. it should never have been concluded. in a few days' time, president trump will decide, will make his decision on what to do with the nuclear deal. i am sure he will do the right thing for the united states, the right thing for israel, the right thing for the peace of the world. host[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute,

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